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title: Here they remained, and the angel hovered over a small, narrow stree… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here they remained, and the angel hovered over a small, narrow street, in which lay a large heap of straw, ashes, and sweepings from the houses of people who had removed. Who acts: flowers, angel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 13

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Here they remained, and the angel hovered over a small, narrow street, in which lay a large heap of straw, ashes, and sweepings from the houses of people who had removed.

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**Who acts:** flowers, angel · **What happens:** remain, hover, lie, remove · **To what, where:** sweepings, small narrow street, large heap, people

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, angel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:4:13
# text = Here they remained, and the angel hovered over a small, narrow street, in which lay a large heap of straw, ashes, and sweepings from the houses of people who had removed.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hovered	hover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sweepings	sweeping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | flowers *= flower* | sweepings from the houses of people |  | here |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hover** | past | the angel |  |  | a small narrow street |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over street=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past |  | a large heap of straw and ashes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heap=Theme |
| 4 | **remove** | past · perfect · passive |  | people |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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